Strand package and method of forming the same



Dec. 28,` 1926.

J. VAN HOOK STRAND PACKAGE AND METHOD oF EORMING THE SAME Filed 001.119, 1.925

INI/Enron, Iosel'ah YomooK,

in ab Wl TNESS Patented Dec. 28, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,612,553. PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH VAN HOOK, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO J.- E. BARBOUR COM- i PANY, OF PATERSION, NEW JERSEY.

STRAND :PACKAGE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME.

Application 1ed`0ctober 19, 1925.

This invention relates to strand packages, and especially packages of thread, twine or the like used in tailoring, carpet and various other sewing operations, in which the strands are arranged side by side. The object of the invention is both to provide a package of this class the individual strands of which will be treated at the ends so as to facilitate threading them through the eyes of needles and to form a package with such treated strand ends in as simple and expedi tious a manner as possible.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention,

Fig. 1 showing a plan of a package having a bias-cut end;

Fig. 2 a magnified view of a strand assembly in process of being bias-cut, and

Fig. 3 a magnified view of one of the strands, showing both its ends bias-cut and also waxed.

The strands a in Fig. lare irst arranged so as to lie in some side by' side arrangement and so as to be bound loosely tovether, to the end that an individual stran may be drawn from the resulting assembly by drawing upon one \end thereof. For eX- ample, the strands may be arranged in groups and these groups braided together loosely as indicated at b in Fig. 1.

According to the preferred procedure one or each end of the package is then treated with a waxing substance, by which I mean to include any substance suitable for the" purpose which will lay the 4fibres of each strand or form a binder therefor. When the strands are treated with this substance the latter is in thel liquid state, and before it sets or hardens the assembly may be shaken out so as to remove the surplus waxing substance and leave the individualstrands separated from each other when the Waxing substance sets.

Thereupon the end or each end of the assembly, so treated with the waxing substance, is severed on the bias. Preferabl this is done not on a single bias line, whic would leave the cut end of the assembly skewed, but on different bias lines arranged so that the alternates converge with respect to the remainder and so that 'the points of the' sei-rations consequently formed are all approximately in the same transverse line at ri ht angles to the length of the assembly. In ig. 2 c is a knife or die .for severing Serial No. 63,564.

thel assembly in the way just described, the

lines at d indicating the cutting lines of this knife or die c.

Of course the result of cutting the assembly on bias lines is to cut leach of the strands on the bias, leaving each strand a with a tapered end e' as shown in Fig. 3.

in Figs. 2 and 3 designates the waxing su stance.

While I prefer to sever the strands after the waxing treatment because they become by the waxing stifened and thereb)v` and in other respects more readily handled in the operations ,incident tothe severing, it is not indispensablethat the waxing precede the severing. v

So far as the pointing of the strands is concerned actual severing is not indispensable, the invention in respect to the method involving first loosely binding the strands together in side by side arrangement and then removing (by any means) from this strand assembly by a single operation so much of an end portion of such assembly as is between the free end ofv such portion and a bias line across the assembly; and in respect to the product involving the forming (by an means of one end thereof on the -bias,'w ereby t e individual strands at such end are tapered.

I claim:

1. The herein described method of forming a strand package with ends of the component strands thereof pointedf which consists in assembling strands' side by side, treating fthe strands of the assembly thus formed with a waxing substance, and severing the assemblyon the bias in the region ofso treating each strand.

2. The herein described method of forminga strand ackage with ends of the componentvstran s thereof pointed which con- A sists in assembling strands side by side, treating the strands of the assembl thus formed with a' waxing substance, an after so treating the strands severing the assembly on the bias in the region of so treating each strand. V

3. The herein described method of forming a strand package in which the individual strands are removable and have pointed ends which consist in loosely binding the strands together in side by side arrangement and then removing by a single operation from the strand assembly thus formed so much of an end portion thereof as is between the free e'n'd Of such portion' and a bias line across the assembly.

4. The herein described method of form ing a strand package in whichl the individual strands are removable and have pointed ends which consist in loosely binding the strands together in side by side arrangement and then severing strands of the assembly thus formed on the bias and by a single operation. Y

5. A strand package consisting of lengths of strands loosely bound togetherand having one end thereof formed On Athe bias, whereby the individual strands-are tapered at such end of the package.

6. A strandpackage consisting of lengths of strands loosely bound together and having one end thereof cut on the bias, whereb the individual strands are tapered at suchI end of the package.

7. A strand package consisting of lengths of strands loosely bound together' and having one end thereof formed on different bias lines,l whereby the individual strands are treating the stran s of the assembly thus formed with a waxing substance, and removing from such assembl so much of an end portion thereof as is tween 'the free end of such portion and al bias line across the assembly.

9. A strand package consisting of lengths of strands loosely bound together and having one end formed onldiferent bias flines the alternates of which lines/ converge with res ct to the remaining lines, whereby the in ividual strands are tapered at suchend of the' package and each serration at such 'a formed end of the package has both sides on the bias.

In testimony whereof I) ax my signature.

JOSEPH VAN HOOK. 

